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Deep Editing & MIDI Control: BACKING UP POD PROGRAMS TO OTHER DEVICES

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BACKING UP POD PROGRAMS TO OTHER DEVICES

It’s recommended that you backup the sounds programmed into your POD so that

you can restore them in case of some future disaster. If you want to transfer sounds

from POD to some other MIDI device for backup (like say a MIDI ﬁle player or a

hardware sequencer or keyboard workstation), things work pretty much the same

way as they do for POD-to-POD transfers. But we’ll spell it out anyway. You’ll

need a standard MIDI cable to get everybody talking.

Connect the MIDI OUT of your POD to the MIDI IN of the receiving MIDI

devices. Press the MIDI button on POD and check to see what MIDI channel it is

set to. Use the Up and Down buttons to set it to the same channel that your

MIDI device is expecting to receive on. Or alternatively, change your other MIDI

device to match the POD MIDI channel – whichever ya wanna do is just ﬁne, so

long as they both end up talking on the same MIDI Channel.

Transferring All Sounds - To dump all the programmed sounds from POD to

your MIDI recorder, make sure that the POD MIDI button is lit up, and press the

POD SAVE button. The POD’s single digit display will say “A” which means send

All sounds via MIDI, and the Save button will ﬂash as if to say, “press me again to

start sending.” Start your MIDI recorder. Now, if you do press Save a second time,

the entire memory of your POD will be dumped to the receiving MIDI device.

Pressing any other button on POD will abort the transfer. You also probably have

to press STOP on your MIDI recorder once the transfer is complete.

Transferring Only Some Sounds - To transfer only one or more individual

sounds from POD to your MIDI recorder, here’s the procedure. Start by having

POD in normal operating mode (no MIDI button lit), and selecting the sound you

want to transfer. You can make edits to it if you like; the POD is about to transfer

whatever settings you make active. So, once you’ve got the sound you want, press

MIDI. Now press Save. Use the Up button to change from “A” to “1” which

means you only want to transfer ONE sound to the receiving MIDI recorder. Start

the MIDI recorder going, and then press Save again to make the transfer, or press

anything else to abort. Then you probably have to press STOP on your MIDI

recorder. If you want to send another single sound, select it on your POD, and

press MIDI, then Save, then Up. Set your recorder to receive again. Press Save

on POD to execute the dump. And press STOP on your MIDI recorder.